On
October
6, 2009,
a
three-judge
panel in
the
Rockingham
County
Circuit
Court
suspended
Walter
Franklin
Green
IV's
license
to
practice
law for
seven
months,
to begin
December
26,
2010,
following
an
eighteen-month
suspension
that Mr.
Green is
currently
serving.
The
court
found he
violated
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence,
communication,
declining
or
terminating
representation
and
unauthorized
practice
of law
when he
filed a
pleading
on
behalf
of a
client
during a
time
when his
license
was
suspended.

On
December
4, 2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
Anne
Marston
Lynch's
license
to
practice
law. In
agreeing
to the
revocation,
Ms.
Lynch
acknowledged
that she
had been
indicted
on a
felony
embezzlement
charge
in
Suffolk
Circuit
Court
and that
the
facts of
the case
are
true.

On
December
1, 2009,
a
Virginia
State
Bar
Sixth
District
subcommittee
issued a
public
reprimand
to
Vernon
Keeve
Jr.
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence,
communication,
safekeeping
property,
declining
or
terminating
representation,
and
fairness
to
opposing
party
and
counsel.
The
misconduct
occurred
during
his
representation
of a
client
in a
personal
injury
case.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
ethics
charges.

On
November
5, 2009,
a
Virginia
State
Bar
Fifth
District-Section
I
Subcommittee
issued a
public
reprimand
with
terms on
Kelly
Ralston
Dennis
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
competence,
diligence,
communication,
and
conflict
of
interest:
general
rule.
The
violations
occurred
during
representation
in
matters
involving
creditors'
collection
efforts
against
Mr.
Dennis's
client.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On
November
10,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
Matthew
Bennett
Greene's
license
to
practice
law. In
consenting
to the
revocation,
Mr.
Greene
acknowledged
that he
was
facing
charges
in two
cases
and
admitted
that the
material
facts of
the
charges
are
true.
The
cases
involved
his
representations
in
property
investment
projects.

On
September
24,
2009, a
three-judge
panel in
the
Virginia
Beach
Circuit
Court
imposed
a public
reprimand
with
terms on
Carl
Herman
Bundick
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence
and
communication.
The
misconduct
occurred
in his
representation
in a
divorce.

On
September
29,
2009, a
three-judge
panel in
the
Norfolk
Circuit
Court
issued a
public
reprimand
to
George
Anthony
Yancey
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
competence,
diligence,
and
responsibilities
regarding
nonlawyer
assistants.
The
misconduct
occurred
when Mr.
Yancey
defaulted
on an
appeal
in a
court-appointed
criminal
case.

On
October
29,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Third
District-Section
I
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
reprimand
on
Susan
Page
Allen
for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
diligence
and
conflict
of
interest:
general
rule.
The
misconduct
occurred
in a
real
estate
case.

On
October
26,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Second
District
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
admonition
with
terms on
Linda
Lee
Cupit
for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
safekeeping
property
and for
not
performing
required
reconciliations
of her
escrow
account.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

Effective
November
2, 2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
suspended
Marcus
Noah
Perdue
III's license
to
practice
law for
two
sixty-day
periods,
to run
concurrently.
Mr.
Perdue
violated
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence
and
misconduct
that
reflects
adversely
on a
lawyer's
fitness
to
practice.
The
misconduct
occurred
in two
cases.
Two
other
cases
were
dismissed
by the
board.

On
October
22,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Fourth
District-Section
II
Subcommittee
issued a
public
reprimand
with
terms to
Crystal
Anita
Gist
Fisher
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence
and
communication.
The
misconduct
occurred
in two
employment
discrimination
matters.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On October 20, 2009, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Alfred M. Tripp's license to practice law. In consenting to the revocation, Mr. Tripp acknowledged that he provided false information on judicial selection questionnaires provided to the General Assembly to support his application for a judgeship.

On
October
26,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Second
District
Subcommittee
issued a
public
reprimand
with
terms to
John
Wesley
Bonney
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence,
fees,
declining
or
terminating
representation,
firm
names
and
letterheads,
and
misconduct
that
reflects
adversely
on a
lawyer's
fitness
to
practice
law. The
subcommittee
ordered
Mr.
Bonney
to
refund
money to
two
clients
and to
vacate a
judgment
against
one of
the
clients.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On
October
9, 2009,
a
Virginia
State
Bar
Seventh
District
Subcommittee
issued a
public
reprimand
with
terms to
Christopher
Jason
Agresto
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence
and
safekeeping
property.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charge
in two
cases.

On
October
9, 2009,
a
Virginia
State
Bar
Tenth
District-Section
I
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
reprimand
with
terms on
Raphael
Benedict
Hartley
III
for
violating
a
professional
rule
that
governs
safekeeping
property.
Mr.
Hartley
did not
audit
and
reconcile
his
attorney
escrow
and
trust
accounts
as the
rules
require,
which
led to
overdrafts
and
checks
returned
for
nonsufficient
funds.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On
October
20,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
Ann
Marie
Miller's
license
to
practice
law. In
consenting
to the
revocation,
Ms.
Miller
admitted
that, in
bankruptcy
cases,
she had
violated
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence,
communication,
safekeeping
property,
communications
concerning
a
lawyer's
services,
and
misconduct
that
reflects
adversely
on the
lawyer's
fitness
to
practice
law. She
acknowledged
that at
the time
of the
revocation,
the bar
was
investigating
allegations
of
misconduct.

*On
September
30,
2009,
the
Circuit
Court of
the City
of
Roanoke
appointed
a
receiver
to take
control
of her
practice,
at the
request
of the
Virginia
State
Bar. All
inquiries
regarding
Ms.
Miller's
cases
should
be
directed
to the
receiver:

On
October
19,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
suspended
Anthony
Gerome
Davis's
license
to
practice
law for
eight
months
with
terms.
The
board
found
that he
violated
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence,
communication,
safekeeping
property,
declining
or
terminating
representation,
and bar
admission
and
disciplinary
matters.
The
misconduct
occurred
in a
custody
case.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

Effective
October
15,
2009, a
three-judge
panel in
the
Virginia
Beach
Circuit
Court
suspended
Walter
Ware
Morrison's
license
to
practice
law for
ninety
days for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
candor
toward
the
tribunal
and
misconduct
that
reflects
adversely
on the
lawyer's
fitness
to
practice.
The case
involved
a
visitation
and
custody
dispute.

On
September
28,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Seventh
District
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
reprimand
with
terms on
Bradley
Glenn
Pollack
for
violating
the
disciplinary
rule
that
governs
fairness
to
opposing
party
and
counsel
by
threatening
to
present
disciplinary
charges
against
another
attorney
solely
to
obtain
an
advantage
in a
civil
matter,
and by
asserting
a
position
and
taking
action
on
behalf
of a
client
when it
was
obvious
that
such
action
would
serve
merely
to
harass
another.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On
September
25,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
administratively
suspended
Daniel
Stephen
Orci
Jr.'s
license
to
practice
law in
response
to his
July 2,
2009,
disbarment
in the
District
of
Columbia
by the
D.C.
Court of
Appeals.
The
board
ordered
him to
appear
on
October
23,
2009, to
show
cause
why the
same
discipline
should
not be
imposed
in
Virginia.

*On
October
23,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
Daniel
Stephen
Orci
Jr.'s
license
to
practice
law in
response
to his
July 2,
2009,
disbarment
in the
District
of
Columbia
by the
D.C.
Court of
Appeals.
His
Virginia
license
was
summarily
suspended
on
September
25,
2009,
pending
a board
hearing.

On
September
11,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Third
District
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
reprimand
on
David
Lassiter
Jr.
for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
competence,
diligence,
declining
or
terminating
representation,
meritorious
claims
and
contentions,
and
misconduct
that
reflects
adversely
on a
lawyer's
fitness
to
practice.
The
sanctions
were
imposed
in five
criminal
law
cases.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

Effective
January
1, 2010,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
imposed
a
thirty-day
suspension
of
Steven
Scott
Biss's
license
to
practice
law, for
violating
the
professional
rule
governing
misconduct
that
reflects
adversely
on the
lawyer's
fitness
to
practice.
During a
previous
suspension
of his
law
license,
Mr. Biss
continued
to
negotiate
with an
insurance
company
on
behalf
of a
client
in a
personal
injury
matter.

On
October
1, 2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
Bruce
Harold
Troxell's
license
to
practice
law. In
consenting
to the
revocation,
Mr.
Troxell
acknowledged
that a
disciplinary
complaint
was
pending
against
him at
the
time,
and if
disciplinary
proceedings
were
brought
based
upon the
facts of
the
complaint
he could
not
defend
against
them.
The case
involved payments
to the
U.S.
Patent
and
Trademark
Office
that
were
denied
for
insufficient
funds.

On
September
25,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
David
Eugene
Cecil's
license
to
practice
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
misconduct,
safekeeping
property,
fees,
and
communication.
He
committed
the
violations
as a
trustee
and
fiduciary
and in
his
handling
of a
late
client's
estate.

On
September
25,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
summarily
suspended
Ralph
E.
Mirarchi's
license
to
practice
law,
based on
his
April
29,
2008,
guilty
plea
colloquy
to and
conviction
of theft
in the
Chester
County
Court of
Common
Pleas in
Chester,
Pennsylvania.
The
board
ordered
Mr.
Mirarchi
to
appear
on
October
23,
2009, to
show
cause
why his
Virginia
license
should
not be
further
suspended
or
revoked.

Effective
October
25,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
imposed
a
one-year
suspension
with
terms of
James
Kevin
Clarke's
license
to
practice
law, for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence,
communication,
declining
or
terminating
representation,
and bar
admission
and
disciplinary
matters.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges
in five
cases.

On
August
28,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Tenth
District
Committee
imposed
a public
reprimand
on
Paul
Michael
Childers
for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
competence,
scope of
representation,
declining
or
terminating
representation,
and bar
admission
and
disciplinary
matters.
The
misconduct
occurred
in Mr.
Childers's
representation
in a
court-appointed
appeal
of a
criminal
matter.

On
September
10,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
suspended
Lindsey
Owen
Sutherland's
license
administratively
to
practice
law for
failure
to
comply
with a
subpoena
duces
tecum.

September
11, 2009

Peter
Campbell
Sackett,
800
Court
Street,
Lynchburg,
Virginia,
24504

VSB
Docket
no.
09-000-080072

Effective
October
1, 2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
suspended
Peter
Campbell
Sackett's
license
to
practice
law for
eighteen
months.
Mr.
Sackett
failed
to
notify
clients,
opposing
counsel,
and
Campbell
County
Circuit
Court of
a
previous
thirty-day
suspension,
as the
Rules of
the
Supreme
Court of
Virginia
require.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On
August
18,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Tenth
District
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
reprimand
on
Anthony
Elmer
Collins
for
violating
the
disciplinary
rule
that
governs
communication.
The
misconduct
occurred
while
Mr.
Collins
was
serving
as a
guardian
ad litem
for a
prisoner
who was
seeking
visitation
with his
daughter.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On
July 13,
2009, a
Virginia
State
Bar
Second
District
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
reprimand
with
terms on
Michael
Bruce
Hamar
for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
scope of
representation,
diligence,
communication,
conflict
of
interest,
safekeeping
of
property,
and
declining
or
terminating
representation.
The
misconduct
occurred
in his
representation
of a
purchaser
in a
real
estate
closing.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
disciplinary
charges.

Effective
June 15,
2009, a
three-judge
panel in
Loudoun
County
Circuit
Court
suspended
Jonathan
Alden
Moseley's
license
to
practice
law for
six
months.
The
court
found
that he
violated
professional
rules
that
govern
candor
toward
the
tribunal,
fairness
to
opposing
party
and
counsel,
truthfulness
in
statements
to
others,
false or
reckless
remarks
about
judicial
officials,
and
misconduct.

Effective
August
7, 2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
imposed
a public
reprimand
with
terms on
Vaughan
Christopher
Jones
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
safekeeping
property.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.
Two
cases
were
dismissed
by the
Disciplinary
Board
because
they
were
based on
the same
set of
facts.

On
July 23,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Third
District,
Section
III,
Subcommittee
imposed
a public
admonition
on
Vaughan
Christopher
Jones
for
violating
professional
rules
that
govern
competence
and
diligence.
The
matter
involved
a
court-appointed
appeal
of a
criminal
case in
which
the
client
lost his
right of
appeal
because
Mr.
Jones
missed
filing
deadlines
and did
not
pursue
available
remedies.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.
The
subcommittee
dismissed
a second
case
against
Mr.
Jones
for lack
of clear
and
convincing
evidence.

On
July 14,
2009, a
three-judge
panel in
the
Richmond
Circuit
Court
imposed
a
dismissal
de
minimus
on
Timothy
O'Connor
Johnson
for
violating
the
professional
rule
that
governs
safekeeping
property.
The
court
heard
the
matter
on
appeal
of the
Virginia
State
Bar
Third
District
Committee's
finding
that Mr.
Johnson
had not
appropriately
disbursed
some
proceeds
from a
client's
personal
injury
case.
The
court
agreed
with the
committee's
finding
of
misconduct,
but
reduced
the
sanction
from a
public
admonition
to a
dismissal
de
minimus.

On July
30,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
summarily
suspended
Thomas
Dixon
Johnston's
license
to
practice
law,
based on
his July
2, 2009,
guilty
plea in
the U.S.
District
Court
for the
Eastern
District
of
Virginia
to a
charge
of
receipt
of child
pornography.
The
board
ordered
Mr.
Johnston
to
appear
on
August
28,
2009, to
show
cause
why his
Virginia
license
should
not be
further
suspended
or
revoked.

On
August
11,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
ThomasDixon
Johnston's
license
to
practice
law,
based on
his July
2, 2009,
guilty
plea in
the U.S.
District
Court
for the
Eastern
District
of
Virginia
to a
charge
of
receipt
of child
pornography.
Mr.
Johnston
consented
to the
revocation.
His
license
had been
suspended
since
July 30,
2009,
pending
a show
cause
hearing.

On July
10,
2009, a
three-judge
panel of
the
Norfolk
Circuit
Court
suspended
Curtis
Tyrone
Brown's license
to
practice
law for
thirty
days
beginning
August
1, 2009.
The
court
found
that he
violated
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
candor
to a
tribunal,
fairness
to
opposing
party
and
counsel,
truthfulness
in
statements
to
others,
and
misconduct
that
involves
dishonesty,
fraud,
deceit,
or
misrepresentation.
The
violations
occurred
in his
defense
of a
client
indicted
for capital
murder
for
hire.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
disciplinary
charges
against
Mr.
Brown.

On
June 30,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
suspended
Jackson
Willard
Snyder
II's
license
to
practice
law for
a year
and a
day,
effective
May 27,
2009.
Mr.
Snyder
was
convicted
on
February
9, 2009,
in the
U.S.
District
Court
for the
District
of
Maryland
after he
pled
guilty
to
making
false
statements
on a
financial
disclosure
form.
His
license
was
summarily
suspended
on May
27
pending
a board
hearing.
This was
an
agreed
disposition
of
misconduct
charges.

On June 25, 2009, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board found that Richard Wolfe Arnold Jr. violated the Virginia Consumer Real Estate Settlement Protection Act and regulations and fined him $500. Mr. Arnold did not maintain an escrow account for deposit of clients’ settlement funds as required by CRESPA and the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct. This was an agreed disposition of the charges.

On
December
18, 2008,
the
Virginia
State Bar
Seventh
District
Committee
imposed a
public
admonition
with terms
on Walter
Franklin
Green IV for
violating
disciplinary
rules that
govern
unauthorized
practice
of law and
communicating
false or
misleading
information
concerning
a lawyer's
services.
Mr. Green
continued
to
advertise
his
services
as an
attorney
on his
website
while his
license to
practice
law was
suspended.
Mr. Green
appealed
the
decision
but later
withdrew the
appeal. On
June 23,
2009, the
Rockingham
County
Circuit
Court
dismissed
the
appeal.

On July
9, 2009, a
Virginia
State Bar
Third
District
Subcommittee
imposed a
public
reprimand
on Russell
Nardy
Allen for
violating
the
disciplinary
rule that
governs
diligence.
Mr. Allen
missed
filing
deadlines
for three
appeals.
He
informed
the
clients of
the
subsequent
dismissals
of the
appeals,
then
obtained
delayed
appeals on
all three
cases.

On July
14, 2009,
the
Virginia
State Bar
Disciplinary
Board
revoked
Vincent
Francis
Bonzagni's
license to
practice
law. He
admitted
that, in
an
uncontested
divorce
representation,
he did not
diligently
work on
the case
and did
not
respond to
e-mail
inquiries
from the
client,
who was
deployed
overseas.
He also
did not
deposit
her fee
into an
attorney
trust
account,
as the
professional
rules
require.
Mr.
Bonzagni
consented
to the
revocation.

On
July 7,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
suspended Richard
Anthony
Bednar's
license
administratively
topractice
law for
failure
to
comply
with a
subpoena duces
tecum.

July 7,
2009
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*****
******
*******

Andrew
Robert
Sebok,
1520
Holland
Avenue,
Norfolk,
Virginia
23509

VSB
Docket No.
08-021-074174

On June
26, 2009,
a
three-judge
panel in
the
Norfolk
Circuit
Court
suspended
Andrew
Robert
Sebok's
license to
practice
law for
three
months,
effective
July 17,
2009. Mr.
Sebok
violated
disciplinary
rules that
govern
diligence,
communication,
and
declining
or
terminating
representation.
The
misconduct
occurred
in his
court-appointed
representation
of a
client in
a criminal
appeal.

*On July
15,
2009,
the
Supreme
Court of
Virginia
granted
a stay
of the
suspension
pending
the
appeal.

**On
December
10,
2009,
Mr.
Sebok
filed
an
appeal
with
the
Supreme
Court
of
Virginia.

***On
March
18,
2010,
the
Supreme
Court
of
Virginia
dismissed
the
appeal.

****On
June
18,
2010,
the
Supreme
Court
of
Virginia
denied
the
petition
for
rehearing.

*****On
August
3,
2010,
the
Circuit
Court
for
the
City
of
Norfolk
suspended
Mr.
Sebok's
license
for
three
months
effective
September
1,
2010.

******On
September
23,
2010,
Mr.
Sebok
filed
an
appeal
with
the
Supreme
Court
of
Virginia.

*******On
November
10,
2010,
Supreme
Court
of
Virginia
denied
a stay
of the
suspension
pending
appeal.

On
June 26,
2009,
the
Virginia
State
Bar
Disciplinary
Board
imposed
a public
reprimand
with
terms on
Reuben
Voll
Greene
for
violating
disciplinary
rules
that
govern
diligence
and
communication.
The
misconduct
occurred
in three
criminal
matters.